Monthly SNAP Food Stamps payments follow a very different delivery day rule to Social Security retirement checks. While SSA payments arrive on the same day for all beneficiaries in all states, SNAP Food Stamps payments arrive on Americans’ EBT cards at different times of the month depending on where they live.
In other words, the payment schedule for SNAP Food Stamps is state-based, while the Social Security schedule is federal. Of course, retirement payments also have their rules, since there are several different groups within retirees and depending on the group to which we belong, we may get the check sooner or later.
Leaving Social Security payments aside, the SNAP Food Stamps check will arrive in just a few hours for thousands of American beneficiaries. Thanks to knowing this calendar perfectly, we will be able to have absolute control at all times of which day we will get our check.
Who receives SNAP Food Stamps on the EBT card?
Payments are coming soon to thousands of beneficiaries, but only if they live in a state where the check will be sent in the next few hours. The truth is that many states have already sent all payments to SNAP Food Stamps beneficiaries, but many other states have yet to send these benefits.
So, to receive this new SNAP Food Stamps payment, we have to live in a state that still has the payment schedule open. And there is no better way of finding this out than by looking at the calendar for the whole of March:
- Alabama: March 4 to 23
- Alaska: March 1
- Arizona: March 1 to 13
- Arkansas: March 4 to 13
- California: March 1 to 10
- Colorado: March 1 to 10
- Connecticut: March 1 to 3
- Delaware: March 2 to 23
- District of Columbia: March 1 to 10
- Florida: March 1 to 28
- Georgia: March 5 to 23
- Guam: March 1 to 10
- Hawaii: March 3 to 5
- Idaho: March 1 to 10
- Illinois: March 1 to 10
- Indiana: March 5 to 23
- Iowa: March 1 to 10
- Kansas: March 1 to 10
- Kentucky: March 1 to 19
- Louisiana: March 1 to 23
- Maine: March 10-14
- Maryland: March 4 to 23
- Massachusetts: March 1 to 14
- Michigan: March 3 to 21
- Minnesota: March 4 to 13
- Mississippi: March 4 to 21
- Missouri: March 1 to 22
- Montana: March 2 to 6
- Nebraska: March 1 to 5
- Nevada: March 1 to 10
- New Hampshire: March 5
- New Jersey: March 1 to 5
- New Mexico: March 1 to 20
- New York: March 1 to 9
- North Carolina: March 3 to 21
- North Dakota: March 1
- Ohio: March 2 to 20
- Oklahoma: March 1 to 10
- Oregon: March 1 to 9
- Pennsylvania: March 3 to 14
- Puerto Rico: March 4 to March 22
- Rhode Island: March 1
- South Carolina: March 1 to 10
- South Dakota: March 10
- Tennessee: March 1 to 20
- Texas: March 1 to 28
- Utah: March 5, 11 and 15
- Virgin Islands: March 1
- Vermont: March 1
- Virginia: March 1 to 7
- Washington: March 1 to 20
- West Virginia: March 1 to 9
- Wisconsin: March 1 to 15
- Wyoming: March 1 to 4
Once the State sends the SNAP Food Stamps money to our EBT card, we just have to wait, as the money usually appears immediately or a few hours later. With the money on the card, we can use it to shop at any of the participating establishments.
